DDH Make It Nice
Sloop Brewing
- From:
- Sloop Brewing
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.91 | pDev: 5.63%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 25, 2021
- Added:
- Apr 27, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
87
Very Good
87
Very Good
Brewed with flaked oats, flaked wheat, milk sugar, and a double dose of dry hop goodness! Pacific Northwest and new school German hops make this beer super fruit forward with notes of pineapple, melon, and white wine. Whenever we do anything here at Sloop, we always make sure and say to Make It Nice — and we tried extra hard with this one!
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Reviewed by BloodSoakedAleMug from New York
4.31/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.31/5 rDev +10.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Look: Pours a very, very hazy, golden yellow, with a big rocky two finger head of white foam. It looks almost like orange juice with the pulp. As the head dies down it reveals excellent lacing on the glass, and a thin sheet of tiny, pinhole sized bubbles that continues to blanket the surface of the beer remains throughout the session.
Aroma: Citrus peel. Tropical fruit. Overripe mango, pineapple and papaya. Bittersweet tangerine and grapefruit. Mild hoppy spruce sap/lemon balm in the background to round it out. Tangy.
Taste: Slow on arrival at first sip. Gradually builds in flavor. Wildly complex for a 6 % beer. . . Upfront there is a flavor of spicy, desiccated pink grapefruit skins and tangerine rind. It gives the arrival a floral, dry, pithy bite that preludes the actual core flavors. It takes it's time, eventually evolving into flavors of fresh cut spruce clippings, pine sap and bitter, sticky hop resin. The bitter flavors soon subside, as flavors of freshly squeezed orange juice take center stage. The OJ lingers for a while before finally turning savory and ripe with notes of grapefruit, sweet cantaloupe and mango. It finally ends on more, vaguely bitter, spicy, dried fruit peel.
Feel: Juicy. Sticky. Dry. Full bodied. Vaguely creamy. Sessionable, but worth sipping as it develops in flavor over time.
Overall: Mouthwatering with a complex flavor. Extremely hoppy and sticky but without being unwieldy in the expression of the bitterness/juiciness.
Jul 19, 2019Aroma: Citrus peel. Tropical fruit. Overripe mango, pineapple and papaya. Bittersweet tangerine and grapefruit. Mild hoppy spruce sap/lemon balm in the background to round it out. Tangy.
Taste: Slow on arrival at first sip. Gradually builds in flavor. Wildly complex for a 6 % beer. . . Upfront there is a flavor of spicy, desiccated pink grapefruit skins and tangerine rind. It gives the arrival a floral, dry, pithy bite that preludes the actual core flavors. It takes it's time, eventually evolving into flavors of fresh cut spruce clippings, pine sap and bitter, sticky hop resin. The bitter flavors soon subside, as flavors of freshly squeezed orange juice take center stage. The OJ lingers for a while before finally turning savory and ripe with notes of grapefruit, sweet cantaloupe and mango. It finally ends on more, vaguely bitter, spicy, dried fruit peel.
Feel: Juicy. Sticky. Dry. Full bodied. Vaguely creamy. Sessionable, but worth sipping as it develops in flavor over time.
Overall: Mouthwatering with a complex flavor. Extremely hoppy and sticky but without being unwieldy in the expression of the bitterness/juiciness.
Reviewed by Kendo from New York
4.08/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.08/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Poured from the can into a tall specialty IPA glass. Body is hazy light-golden, with a 1.5-finger fluffy white head that retains well, finally leaving behind a curtain of lace.
S: Spicy tropical fruit juice - think mango, papaya, pineapple with a touch of pine and a faint hint of cat pee.
T: Sweeter tropical fruits prevail - mango, papaya, slightly underripe melon, then a touch of grape skins/chardonnay and a decent amount of lime at the finish. Decent bitterness lingers on the palate despite the earlier dominant sweetness.
M: A little on the lighter/thinner side here (on the can, they do call this a Pale Ale rather than an IPA), not quite watery, but not as much heft as some of their "Bomb" offerings.
O: Good to very good.
May 03, 2019S: Spicy tropical fruit juice - think mango, papaya, pineapple with a touch of pine and a faint hint of cat pee.
T: Sweeter tropical fruits prevail - mango, papaya, slightly underripe melon, then a touch of grape skins/chardonnay and a decent amount of lime at the finish. Decent bitterness lingers on the palate despite the earlier dominant sweetness.
M: A little on the lighter/thinner side here (on the can, they do call this a Pale Ale rather than an IPA), not quite watery, but not as much heft as some of their "Bomb" offerings.
O: Good to very good.
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